Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:15:00 +0200 From: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20020618221500.A62776@darius.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <B698561C-742E-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net>; from chad@shire.net on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400 References: <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net> <B698561C-742E-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net>
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC wrote: > > On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 08:31 , Morsal Rodbay wrote: > > > I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it > > wouldnt > > run XFree. Everything worked well besides X. Since a workstation > > without X > > is useless I was forced to switch to WinXP and it's very stable so > > there is > > nothing wrong with the hardware which means it's a FreeBSD issue. > > Not necesarily. What video card did you have. Is it on the supported > list for xfree? Is it on the well supported list or the > take-your-chances list? Was your kernel and or xfree compiled with AMD > optimizations turned on in gcc? Lots of questions can be asked. GeForce 2 MX 200 CPU_TYPE = k7 > I have some servers running Athlon XP 1800+ processors and the kernel > was compiled with -march=k6 since I specified a k7 processor in the > make.conf. The machines would hang every few days. Once I recompiled > the kernel with no -march flag (just straight x86) I have not had a > problem (so far, knock on wood). I do not know where it was hanging up, > since the machines are 4000km away from me right now, but they have not > had a problem since I did that -- maybe you have a similar issue? Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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